Three Washington-area House members asked the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to make Comcast Corp.'s proposed merger with Adelphia Communications Corp. contingent on Comcast entering binding arbitration to settle the dispute with Mid-Atlantic Sports Network over the airing of Washington Nationals baseball games.

The proposal by Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., James Moran, D-Va., and Albert Wynn, D-Md., is the latest effort by federal and local officials to resolve a dispute that prevents 1.3 million Nationals fans from seeing most games on TV.

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